Keton Hall as engraved around 1730, one time home of the 2nd
Duke of Leeds (Leeds in Kent not Leeds in Yorks). It used to exist
on the road between Kiveton and Todwick and the contract to build
it was given in 1698 at the pay of the 1st Duke of Leeds to replace
the inadequately grand Elizabethan Thorpe
Hall (on the Thorpe Salvin pages) which fell thereafter into
ruin and was eventually dismantled.
Keeton Hall itself was demolished by the 6th Duke in 1811, whom the
locals can thank for the loss of two of the best houses in the area
as he relocated himself to Hornby Castle, Bedale, 65 miles north in
North Yorks. He rented out the parkland for farming, and later for
coal mining although he never let his Harthill estate suffer the
ravages of coal mining. The great estates of this area tended to
break up and be sold in the 1930s. Behind Keeton Hall was the Dukes
hunting estate and park, which is why Kiveton is now called Kiveton
Park. This hall used to contain paintings by artists like:

Holbein
Reubens
Van Dyke
Laguerre
Titian
Canaletto

Today such a collection would surely be worth in excess of
£100 million.

In 1806 the Kiveton estate was visited by the then Prince of
Wales and legend has it that the Duke destroyed Keeton Hall as a
bet with the Prince (it's just a legend though).

The gravestone of one of the Duke's park keepers, one Richard
Ashby (d1778), can be seen on the Harthill
Church pages. There
are lots of pubs in the area called the Leeds Arms because of
succesive Dukes of Leeds. The first Duke who built the place was a
knight (Sir Thomas) from 1647-1673, and then Earl of Danby
1674-1694, and finally a Duke from 1694 until his death in 1712. He
was a very big political player e.g. treasurer of England 1673, and
plotter against James II and for William of Orange 1688. The full
list of titles held by Thomas Osbourne are: Thomas Osbourne, 1st
Duke of Leeds, Marquess of Carmarthen, Earl of Danby, Viscount
Latimer of Danby, Viscount Osbourne of Dunblane, Baron Osbourne of
Kiveton, Sir Thomas Osbourne. Quite a collection of titles and
gongs.